The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-07-27

We desire 90 call attention to the advertise
ment OF tie Lock Haven Normal School.
which appears in this issne.
The mail train from the east was several
hours late Friday evening, on account Of a
land slide on the main hne.
Miss Annie Schall, Of N0rTistown, is visit
ing relatives in Somerset. She IS guest At
tie residence of Il. [. Baer. Esq.
This 5 The season Of the year when reap
ers sing among the harvest gold, and the
mown meadow scents the quiet air.
There are good many strangers in SOM
er-et at present. Cur hotels and boarding
houses are crowded With summer visitors.
4 little seven-year-,Dld daughter Of Mr..
Henry Houpt broke her leg ay falling from
tae fence in lront of bis residence Thursday.
We have heard OF number Of bets being
made a. TO the time when work would be re-
commenced in this county on the South
Penn Road
The Huntingdon landlords who closed
,heir hotels IN d af pique because The
court refused 10 grant them license to sell
liqaor have asaia opcnes them TO the pub
Hc
The Stone masons in this section are all
busy at work on tbe abutnlenis for the new
county bridges that arr being built 70 take
the place Of those washed away by the re-
cent hood
Master Nat Hurst and Fred Gather. two
Young lads who occupy positions in Wana-
makers store, Philadelphia, are spending
their vacation ia Somerset their former
home. They arc boarding AZ Pisels.
Eight Thousand SIX hundred people at
tended Forepaush'- circus at Johnstown
Friday evening. The receipts for admission
uettei s. tD0 the halfprice tickets being of
SCI BY theexfa charge for reserved seats.
Eyery one Eho reads newspaper becomes
familiar with the business houses whose
names appe1- in it, and naturally they 90
thenseive- and send others to the places
they know about. instead Of hunting up 9TH
ers they never heard Of
ar r l. Yoder. wife and child OF Minien.
Iowa. are spending several months in visit
Ing relatives in somerset comfy, their for
mer horne. Mr Yodcr j. q son Of Mr. Bene-
iirt Tnder Of Stonycreek township He IS
epss.ssl iu the mercantile business in Min
den.
How does 81 happen thar there are 80
many I'D maiais among the s,.n,oi teaehers2'
asks-l q r-FDrter OF q school teacher the other
day. Because school tearhers are, rs a rule
women of sense and no woman viii give
up so or $50 position for a $40 man. was
the reply
Lemonade seems ~ be tine popular drink
in somcrs,-t IA present One Of our grocery
men informs ms chat be- sells on an average
or one hundrsi and dfiy glasses per day, and
cha, ,lse mercury must De way down if be
doe pot sell three hun,l1sl glasses every
saturday
Mr. H. d shoaf. principal OF the Column
bus, Nebraska, public schools, IS spending
his vacation in visiting friends and relatives
IN this county He IS son OF our esteemed
farmer friend. Mr. John shoaif. Of Milford
township. and Ielf TINS county for the west
some five years ago.
The band of Gypsies who were encamped
near town during she greater part Of last
week did land-oflice business in the way Of
trading horses, aud they boughr andso not
4 few. Every Old plug IN the neighborhood
was trotted our for a trade which generally
ended in the Gypsies getting the best Of the
51Fgain.
since the revival Of the South Penn Rail
read project a aumber Of strangers have been
buying up large tricts OF timber and coal
lands Il, this county in sections through
which the road runs. In some instances
they bay the land outright, while in others
they take a thirty Dr. sixty days option. The
averas-e price paid for mountain timber land
is about flur dollars per acre
~ Nlrriars lioen-s- were -sii,,i "a the follow =
I'M. uam,.i g..-sans since our last rcport
Chrisssn Dick and Lizzie n He,rics
both Of Meycu.iaie.
Jame II Long and Laura Thompson
both u lmneriand M.
jacob J lands aud Susan Berkey. both
Of Ston',cr-ek township.
Hszt Sal Delanv II QuenIaaoning and
Clara snvder, # Shade township.
Jesse E1ickinger Of Bruddock, Allegheny
county, and Carrie T. B.rkey. Of Paint town
ship
We publish in this issue another letter
from COL Milton Stewart who is now max
ing an extended European tour The Colo
mel Is a native OF Somerset. and i the young.
est son Of squire Andrew stewart, long
resident here. The colonel at the age of -
year. hook ouT 4 company from West Virgin
Ia. and was under the command OF General
Mcclellan. His career a. soldier was mark
ell with saliant-y He and his sister Jane.
who is now here on a visit 10 relatives, have
resided for some years ia the booming town
Of Wielafa, Kansas.
These two items from Saturdays Johns
town ITiu5,e;
George Boyd. a newsboy on the Somerset
& Cambria Branch. guE into 4 racket al the
cirrus lat night. and VIZ pnetfv ln.dlr ns...I